eSports Guide for New Players

eSports Gaming Information
If you are unsure of what eSports gaming even is, then let’s get you up to speed. Essentially, eSports is a competition in which players battle it out to the league or table when playing online games. These organised competitions are taking the gaming world by storm at the moment and it was even estimated that in 2013 a staggering 71.5 million people tuned in to watch the game. That figure has only risen since then and it is safe to say that eSports are here to stay.

Worldwide last year, the eSports gaming industry generate a massive $325 million, and by the end of this year this is set to rise to $493 million, while its audience is roughly 225 million!

eSports Games Available
There are lots of eSports games out there to enjoy, but there are a few that have been particularly popular amongst players in recent years due to their high quality graphics and fantastic game play! Some of the big names that you are likely to come across when searching for eSports games to play are Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm which is a strategy game from Blizzard, Super Smash Bros Melee from Warner from Nintendo, Injustice: Gods Among Us from Warner Brothers, Killer Instinct from Microsoft, and finally from Activision comes we would say the most popular all of these games and that is Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Unless you have seen one of these games in action, then it can be quite difficult to describe what is so impressive about them. When playing an eSports game the main aim of the game is to usually kill or defeat the other player and these games are extremely fast which can make them quite difficult to keep up with.

There are also many International tournaments available to play too. Some of the tournaments that you may have heard of are from the game publisher Vale, who run The International Tournament which only features one of its own games Dota 2. To get this tournament venture started, the company used crowdfunding to create a huge prize pool of a whopping $10 million! Other companies also run their own tournaments including Blizzard and their tournaments include eSports games such as Starcraft. Finally, one of the biggest tournaments that you will see within the eSports industry is the League of Legends Championship Series which is run by Riot Games. This tournament is so exciting that it even sold out the famous Staples Centre in just 1 hour!